De Amicis Quotes & Sayings

Mother made sure her little kids were subjected to a strict routine. We were given a timetable which covered our every waking moment, copies of which were posted by our bedside, in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Story hour meant that mother would read us novels and short stories by Guy de Maupassant, Oscar Wilde and Edmondo de Amicis. Soon we graduated to Tolstoy, Gogol and Turgenev. She read them to us in Chinese and I never realised until much later that the writers wrote them in different European languages. Comics were absolutely forbidden and so were Enid Blyton adventures and pop music ... Lee Cyn and I soon went to a primary school nearby ... After mother's rigorous timetable, school became fun and easy-going. — Ang Swee Chai

What is working stain, does not soil. — Edmondo De Amicis

Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The whole world thinks that this city is the most beautiful place on earth. — Edmondo De Amicis

Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine. — Alan Bradley

I've never been any good with authority. — Rupert Everett

Still, I believe it is only a passing phase and cricket will one day produce an abundance of great players. — Frank Woolley

The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek. — Ramakrishna

When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible. — Donald A. Norman

It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion. — Edmondo De Amicis

High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. — Nancy Gibbs

Her to look at a picture. She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures, — Jane Austen

A woman is always a mystery: one must not be fooled by her face and her hearts inspiration. — Edmondo De Amicis

Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus. — Edmondo De Amicis

That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song. — Ne-Yo

In the seventeenth century, in less than forty years, twenty-six lakes were emptied. — Edmondo De Amicis

Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love. — Edmondo De Amicis

The school is a mother — Edmondo De Amicis

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again ... — Edmondo De Amicis